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Howard detectives arrested three men in a prostitution operation, police announced Wednesday afternoon.

By Jess Nocera

Jun 26, 2019

A Fort Meade man has been charged with multiple counts of human trafficking and assault after trafficking a woman from Maryland to California and back.

By Jess Nocera

May 10, 2019

Howard County police arrested a woman from Brooklyn, New York, last week on suspicion of human trafficking after receiving a tip leading detectives to a Laurel hotel, police said.

By Jess Nocera

Jan 29, 2019

Eight men were arrested at a hotel in the 10100 block of Washington Boulevard in Laurel and charged with solicitation of prostitution and disorderly conduct.

By Jess Nocera

Jan 22, 2019

Donald Trump's secretary of labor regards child sex trafficking victims as thow-away people, says Leonard Pitts. Jr.

A Laurel man was one of seven men from across the state arrested in Howard County’s latest prostitution sting, police announced Tuesday.

By Jess Nocera

Nov 28, 2018

Six men were arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution and disorderly conduct during an undercover operation conducted by the Howard County Police Department.

By Jess Nocera

Jul 11, 2018

Eleven men were arrested for solicitation of prostitution and related charges during an undercover operation Wednesday, Howard County Police announced Friday.

The mystery of how 16-year-old Annie McCann wound up in Baltimore and how she ingested a fatal amount of the numbing agent lidocaine, has never been solved.

Howard County Police arrested a Jessup man on Feb. 27 for human trafficking, police announced on Wednesday.

By Kate Magill

Feb 28, 2018

In an effort to curb alleged illegal activity in local “massage parlors,” three women were arrested recently by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office on solicitation charges.

By Erika Butler

Jan 26, 2018

Howard County police arrested two men in Elkridge on Nov. 17 in a human trafficking and drug case.

By Kate Magill

Nov 21, 2017

Keven Oswald Joseph, 36, was charged with human trafficking and prostitution, police said Friday, and is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center.

By Andrew Michaels

Nov 17, 2017

This week's "The Deuce" is a shocking and well-crafted episode that reveals the very real risks and downsides of the life of a sex worker.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office conducted an operation Wednesday to catch individuals soliciting for prostitution.

Rhue Cook sits at her desk in The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore (GLCCB) building in Old Goucher and writes down the

Candy, Lori and Doreen are introduced to the lurid, yet enticing world of working in the pornography business.

Kamal Germaine Dorchy, 43, faces multiple counts of human trafficking. He is currently being held without bond at the Howard County jail.

By Andrew Michaels

Aug 2, 2017

Son of prominent defense attorney sentenced to 2 years in prostitution case

By Jessica Anderson

Jul 20, 2017

Hoping to help Maryland human trafficking survivors clear criminal records, a University of Baltimore law school clinic has joined with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service to expand its trafficking prevention program. It is designed to pave the way to employment and end cycles of control and abuse.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jul 8, 2017

Howard County police have charged a third woman in connection to the alleged human trafficking of a 16-year-old girl.

Autumn Burton was floored when she first heard about Free Your Voice, a former Baltimore City high school student's successful campaign to prevent a trash

By Margarita Cambest

Jun 7, 2017

The $150 billion global sex industry has wound its way into the suburbs of Howard County, from downtrodden motels on Route 1 to a hotel in Columbia.

By Fatimah Waseem

May 22, 2017

Arthur Billy Coleman, 47, faced his sentence in Howard County Circuit Court on May 5, following a jury's guilty verdict of human trafficking, attempted human trafficking and prostitution during his January trial.

By Andrew Michaels

May 9, 2017

William O. Murray, 29, was charged with multiple counts of human trafficking and prostitution, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said, and later released from the county jail on $15,000 bond.

By Andrew Michaels

Mar 24, 2017

Howard County detectives began their investigation by placing fake ads on a website police said is often used for prostitution.

By Andrew Michaels

Mar 20, 2017

Howard County police arrested eight men in an undercover prostitution operation on Monday in Laurel.

By Andrew Michaels

Feb 22, 2017

Baltimore bar owners are strictly liable for all the illegal behavior of anyone they employ, whether they knew about it ahead of time or not. 

A New York man has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in the interstate sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl in a case that was broken in Harford County in 2015.

By Allan Vought

Feb 9, 2017

A better way to fight drugs

Yanbin Lin, 43, was charged with one count of general prostitution, one count of prostitution business and one count of running a massage therapy business without a license. She was held on $2,000 bond, which she posted Saturday and was released, according to electronic court records.

The Baltimore Police Department will begin directing individuals detained for low-level drug and prostitution offenses in the western half of downtown to support services rather than to jail under a three-year pilot program developed in partnership with local nonprofit organizations.

By Kevin Rector

Feb 6, 2017

Wednesday column of four items: Consent decree on policing, reviving Community Court, not joking about grilled cheese, Cummings on Obama's eight years

By Dan Rodricks

Jan 10, 2017

Residents of Brooklyn, in South Baltimore, hope that pledges of increased street patrols by police include their neighborhood

By Dan Rodricks

Jan 7, 2017

The executive director of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association has been charged with soliciting a prostitute who was an undercover police officer, acco

Prince Q. Torres, 25, of District Heights, was charged by Howard County Police with human trafficking, prostitution, assault and a handgun violation. Anthony Kenneth Wilson, 39, of Baltimore, was also charged with conspiring in human trafficking as well as drug distribution.

By Andrew Michaels

Oct 5, 2016

When it comes to alcohol, there is a strange puritanism that sometimes sweeps through the city like a witch-hunt fever as well-meaning people—u

A federal jury in Baltimore has convicted a second man in connection with a sex trafficking operation that was cracked in Harford County last year. Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen, 29, of Amityville, N.Y., was convicted Thursday of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and other charges related to the trafficking of a 16 year-old female for prostitution in Maryland, Virginia, and New York.

By Allan Vought

Oct 4, 2016

Understanding the reality of sex trafficking begins with insight into the market, as well as the perpetrators, victims and customers. The difficulty lies in distinguishing consenting prostitutes from sex-trafficked victims.

A Baltimore teacher faces human trafficking charges in Baltimore County.

By Alison Knezevich

May 23, 2016

Richard Kemp, an English teacher at Glenelg High School, was arrested on on charges of prostitution-general as well as sexual solicitation of a minor, according to an email sent to parents by the school's principal.

By Lisa Philip

Oct 8, 2015

Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently in the Baltimore metro area.

By Sean Welsh

Sep 16, 2015

A Sykesville man is charged with two counts of prostitution after police in Anne Arundel County say he arranged to meet with an undercover police officer and solicited sexual activity in exchange for payment.

Nelson Bernard Clifford, the repeat sex offender who won multiple acquittals after taking the stand and saying the alleged attacks were consensual, was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison Thursday by a judge who said he had exposed "cracks in the system."

Here's a look at some of the crime that's happened recently in the Baltimore metro area.

By Sean Welsh

May 19, 2015

Howard County Police charged two men this week with soliciting prostitutes online, and warned would-be johns that they are watching closely.

By Pamela Wood

May 15, 2015

Nelson Bernard Clifford, the sex offender who has been acquitted in his last four trials, took the stand in his own defense again Thursday, telling a jury that he had a consensual encounter with his alleged victim.